#impossible

Correspondences are like small clothes before the invention of suspenders; it is impossible to keep them up. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#consequently #determined #him #imagines #impossible

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear. ↗

— Henry Carter Stuart

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I've had people call me from bands that are very popular, and they're like, 'What do we do? We want to do what you do.' It's almost impossible to do what I do, because you would have to start in 1980. You can't just do it. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#bands #because #call #had #i

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about. ↗

— Antonio Tabucchi

#fundamental #impossible #some #values #wrong

It always seems impossible until its done. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#done #impossible #seems #until

It is certain because it is impossible. ↗

— Tertullian

#certain #impossible

Nobel was a genuine friend of peace. He even went so far as to believe that he had invented a tool of destruction, dynamite, which would make war so senseless that it would become impossible. He was wrong. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#believe #destruction #dynamite #even #far

A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which they lived, which have afterwards, and, indeed, within a very short period, been found to be both possible and true. ↗

— Catherine Crowe

#afterwards #age #authorities #been #both

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me. ↗

— Nadine Labaki

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